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Realtor.com counted 1,161,615 active home listings in September, up 5.4 percent
Realtor.com counted 1,161,615 homes actively for sale across the country in September, 5.4 percent more than a year earlier, and the gap between today’s inventory...
Housing starts ran at 1.28 million in August, with 589,000 single-family homes building
The Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported on September 17 that privately-owned housing starts in August ran at a seasonally...
Census counts 483,000 new houses for sale, an 8.5-month supply
At the August sales pace, it would take 8.5 months to sell the 483,000 new single-family houses that were for sale at the end of...
FHFA’s July index has Middle Atlantic house prices up 6.3 percent over 12 months while the Mountain states slipped 0.8 percent in the month
Middle Atlantic house prices are 6.3 percent above their July 2025 level, the strongest 12-month reading among the census divisions in the Federal Housing Finance...
HUD is selling the mortgages on 11 nursing and assisted-living homes in nine unnamed states without FHA insurance, and its notice says nothing about the residents
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is selling the mortgages on 11 nursing and assisted-living homes in nine unnamed states without FHA insurance,...
Apartment completions fell 35.7% in a year
Completions of homes in buildings with five or more units ran at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 302,000 in August 2026, against 470,000 in...
From Jan. 7 a large institutional investor cannot buy another single-family home for 15 years
From Jan. 7, 2027, a large institutional investor cannot buy another single-family home for 15 years under Section 1001 of Public Law 119-101, the 21st...
Existing-home supply reached 4.9 months in August, the highest in more than ten years
The National Association of Realtors reported that existing-home supply reached a 4.9-month supply in August 2026, a level NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun described as...
Seattle home prices fell 1.6% in a year, the weakest of 20 big metros
Seattle home prices were 1.6 percent lower in July than a year earlier, the weakest annual reading among the 20 metropolitan areas the S&P Cotality...
Home values lost ground to inflation for a 14th straight month, Case-Shiller says
Fourteen months in a row, the typical American home has bought less than it did a year earlier. The S&P Cotality Case-Shiller U.S. National Index...
Real home prices rose about 70% from 2000 to 2024 while real median household income rose 17%, Fed Governor Barr says
Between 2000 and 2024, real median household income rose roughly 17 percent while real U.S. house prices rose approximately 70 percent, Federal Reserve Governor Michael...
Fannie Mae forecasts home price growth slowing to 0.9% by mid-2027 with mortgage rates near 6.7%
Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Research Group forecasts that home price growth will slow to 0.9% by the second quarter of 2027, with the 30-year...
Home prices rose just 1.4% in a year in July and fell in Texas, Colorado, Washington and Hawaii, Cotality says
U.S. home prices rose 1.4% in the year through July, and prices fell in four states: Texas (down 0.8%), Colorado (down 0.7%), Washington (down 0.4%)...
Home affordability hit a 21-year low in July, Fed Governor Michael Barr says
A reading of 68 on the Atlanta Fed’s Home Ownership Affordability Monitor in July 2026 is the lowest in 21 years, Federal Reserve Governor Michael...
Louisiana leads the nation in late mortgages, with 8.41% of loans behind in August
Louisiana had the highest share of mortgages behind in August, with 8.41% of active loans either delinquent or in foreclosure, according to the First Look...
Homes in foreclosure jumped 41% in a year to 298,000, ICE says
About 298,000 homes were in the foreclosure process at the end of August, up 89,000 or 41% from a year earlier, according to the First...
Midwest new-home sales jumped 84.9% in August to a 98,000 annual pace
New-home sales in the Midwest nearly doubled in August, rising 84.9% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 98,000 units, according to the same Census...
Builders had 483,000 new homes for sale at the end of August, Census data show
Builders ended August with 483,000 new homes sitting on the market, unchanged from July, according to Census Bureau data that also put the supply of...
The average new-home price fell 8.8% in a year to $478,700 in August
Buyers who signed a contract for a new home in August paid $478,700 on average, the Census Bureau reported, 8.8% less than a year earlier...
Mortgages 60 or more days late rose to 0.83% of Fannie and Freddie loans last quarter, FHFA reports
The share of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages 60 or more days past due climbed to 0.83 percent in the second quarter of 2026,...